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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Growing Up: Here and There, D-Day and All That, and Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What racism did Sheril Cunning experience growing up in California?
(a) Her family were members of the Ku Klux Klan.
(b) Her family was persecuted for their ethnicity.
(c) Her family was anti-Semitic and anti-black.
(d) Her family was anti-Japanese.

2. How many support personnel were behind each rifleman?
(a) Two.
(b) Twenty-four.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Seven.

3. What did Robert Rasmus think when he saw the ambulances arriving on the morning his group was attacking?
(a) That they would have immediate backup.
(b) That it was inevitable that bad things were about to happen.
(c) That modern medicine was a blessing.
(d) That they were all in it together.

4. What did John Baker know if he heard an up-and-down howling siren as a child?
(a) An air attack was in progress.
(b) A ground attack was over.
(c) A ground attack was imminent.
(d) An air attack was over.

5. What black market item was in demand among Russian troops in Vienna in 1945?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) Chocolate.
(c) Pirated big band music.
(d) Mickey Mouse watches.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were thirty-two American servicemen killed after hearing the announcement of Japan's surrender?

2. How did John Kenneth Galbraith say the bombing of Hamburg increased the German war effort?

3. What was each soldier's ration of cigarettes?

4. What did the Japanese code of war, Bushido, mean?

5. What did first-generation Japanese parents mean when they taught their children, gaman?

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